{"id":22760,"date":"2014-08-04T07:49:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T11:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22760"},"modified":"2014-08-04T07:49:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T11:49:47","slug":"f1-to-welcome-ecclestone-court-settlement-lauda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-to-welcome-ecclestone-court-settlement-lauda\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 to &#8216;welcome&#8217; Ecclestone court settlement &#8211; Lauda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda says F1 should &#8220;welcome&#8221; the news that Bernie Ecclestone looks to have settled the high-profile corruption case that threatened his role at the top of the sport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-persons\/Niki-Lauda-1.jpg\" alt=\"Niki-Lauda-1\" width=\"433\" height=\"288\" \/>Suddeutsche Zeitung has reported that the 83-year-old Briton has agreed with prosecutors and the Munich court that a $100 million compensation payment will see serious criminal charges &#8211; which could have left him in jail &#8211; dropped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of formula one, Mercedes and all the other teams, I would only welcome it if Bernie can concentrate on formula one and together with the teams solve the existing problems,&#8221; the newspaper quoted Lauda as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Bernie stops, it would have been a disaster for formula one,&#8221; the triple world champion and Mercedes team chairman added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has built everything up over three decades and is the only one who knows everything &#8212; the business, the details of the teams.\u00a0 Everything is in his head,&#8221; said Lauda.<\/p>\n<p>A guilty verdict would have seen Ecclestone, F1&#8217;s chief executive and long-time &#8216;supremo&#8217;, almost certainly ousted from his position by CVC chief Donald Mackenzie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If all the allegations are gone from the table, then Bernie has done everything right,&#8221; Lauda insisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then all the speculation ends.\u00a0 Continuity is very important at the top of formula one for the future,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda says F1 should &#8220;welcome&#8221; the news that Bernie Ecclestone looks to have settled the high-profile corruption case that threatened his role at the top of the sport. Suddeutsche Zeitung has reported that the 83-year-old Briton has agreed with prosecutors and the Munich court that a $100 million compensation payment will see serious criminal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,2637,3002,5262,5340,598],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22761,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760\/revisions\/22761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}